DODGE CITY

LADY CONQUISTADOR BASKETBALL

Season Preview

    Women’s Basketball at Dodge City Community College finally has some stability in the program and the results have been great. Coach Jim Turgeon enters his 6th season as head coach of DCCC Women’s Basketball Program. The Lady Conqs are coming off a record setting season. Last years team broke a school record for wins with 26. They also had the best winning percentage (.821) in school history while finishing with a 26-6 record. The Lady Conqs were Jayhawk West runners-up and were rated as high as #7 by the NJCAA national poll. Coach Turgeon said he is not sure what to expect from this years team because there is so many new faces and most of the girls have never played in a college basketball game before. “If we can stay injury free and have good team chemistry I think we can surprise some people this year”.

    Those returning to DCCC for their sophomore year will include 5’11” forward Aroha Jennings, 5’11” guard Beth Troutt, and 5’5” point guard Martina Gonzales. “I’m expecting big things from these girls”! “They have been though it before and I think it’s important to them to have a great year”, said Coach Turgeon. The team will be getting added experience from a sophomore transfer. Transferring from NCAA Division I and PAC 10 school University of California @ Berkley 5’8” guard Seda Erdogan. With eight new recruits that the coaches signed they will push the returnees for playing time and had depth to the team. Turgeon went on to say, “The new players on the team are very talented but for us to be successful this year our team chemistry must be good”.

    With the new additions of talented players Coach Turgeon plans on playing a lot of pressure defense. Coach Turgeon says, “I hope we will be able to press and change defenses often during the course of the game. Offensively, we like to get the ball down the floor quickly for easy baskets. I think we will have the numbers and athletic players to do these things. However, if we are not capable of playing that style of ball, I’m flexible and will play a style that gives us the best chance to be successful.
 

    Expectations are running high both on and off the court. “Our team theme is play hard, play smart, play together... off the court you can expect this program’s student athletes to go to class everyday and leave DCCC with a degree”.